Analysis highlights prolonged appointment wait times in pediatric eye care, indicating severe barriers to equitable vision services across the United States.
The current next available appointment for a child to be seen by a pediatric ophthalmologist in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, is approximately 6 months. This is similar to most other regions in the US. How do we frame this substantial difficulty in accessing pediatric eye care in the US?
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